Saturday Night Fever (1977)

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Saturday Night Fever is a unique twist on the "based on" canon. British rock writer Nik Cohn's 1976 New York Magazine article “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” told the story of Vincent, a young Italian-American Brooklynite who becomes the emperor of his own world at the discotheque every Saturday night. The movie, with John Travolta as the renamed hero, Tony, was so successful it became the focal point of the entire disco movement. It wasn't until 20 years later that Cohn admitted to making the whole thing up. He’d only recently arrived in the U.S. and actually knew nothing about New York nightlife.